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Chinese police crack down on train ticket scalpers

BEIJING, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police have arrested more than 2,000 train ticket scalpers and have broken up 1,000 gangs that made and sold counterfeit tickets as the country enters its peak travel season leading up to Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 18.

More than 47,430 tickets, with a face value of 5.64 million yuan (720,000 U.S. dollars), have been confiscated by police, according to the railway public security department.

Some 50,000 policemen have been on duty at railway stations, on trains and at ticket booking offices all over the country to crack down on illegal ticket dealings. The Ministry of Railways announced ...

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